NDLI: Requirements Engineering Quality Revealed through Functional Size Measurement: An Empirical Study in an Agile Context

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Dumas-Monette, J.-F. Trudel, S.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada (Dumas-Monette, J.-F.; Trudel, S.)
Abstract	Software development organizations applying continuous process improvement, when faced with the limits of qualitative approaches, are looking into quantitative approaches to support decision making, namely for improvement of the software project estimation process. Quantitative approaches include sizing functional requirements with standards such as ISO 19761, known as the COSMIC method. But defects in the requirements may have an impact on the accuracy of the resulting functional size, as well as an impact on the project relative effort sometimes known as the 'productivity rate' and the measurement relative effort. Our research program is investigating the relationship between the attributes of requirements engineering (RE) outputs, the software process relative effort, and the measurement process relative effort. RE outputs studied are requirements and specifications documents and data models. As functional sizing is applied, thorough examination of RE outputs is done, which is likely to lead to identifying quality attributes and related findings. As a case study, this paper reports preliminary results related to the quality of requirements artefacts from a software development organization that is applying the Agile approach to its software development process. The functional size of the software developed through five projects was measured and compared with development effort and measurement effort, taking into account the quality rating of requirements. The results led to recommendations of improvement on the RE process that the organization could deploy in its current and next software projects. This paper also presents a list of functional sizing challenges that the measurer has faced, leading to proposed recommendations for planning any software measurement project.
Starting Page	222
Ending Page	232
File Size	276853
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479941742
DOI	10.1109/IWSM.Mensura.2014.43
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-10-06
Publisher Place	Netherlands
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Productivity FSM Estimation Size measurement Defects Accuracy Functional size COSMIC Quality Organizations Measure Software Software measurement Requirements engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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